How Hilary Duff Made Off With Your Daughter

Hillary Frey of the New York Times weighed in on the huge popularity of actress / singer Hilary Duff with “kids in the ‘in-between’ years – those roughly 9-to-13-year-olds with major purchasing power who are too grown up for cartoons but not quite ready for ‘Gilmore Girls’.” Frey writes, “Ms. Duff actually makes being a teenager look and sound like fun. She seems happy to be a good role model, and her embrace of that stature only makes her more attractive to kids and their parents alike. She is unabashedly girly and candid in the way that only one who hasn’t faced the cruel halls of high school can be; she celebrates a time when clothes and makeup are for fooling around more than boy catching.” Read more.